Birutė Jocaitė ŠLiurpienė

Birutė Jocaitė-Šliurpienė is a Lithuanian abstract painter who creates under the name BIRUTE STUDIO, working from her studio in the Žvėrynas district of Vilnius. Her practice is rooted in independent exploration and disciplined experimentation: a slow, deliberate return to the same questions, rather than a search for new ones.

She never begins with a sketch. A painting starts as a fragment, a shade she can't stop returning to, worked in daylight only, since that is the only light in which the true color shows. Slowly, it settles into a balanced, asymmetrical composition. Her surfaces are built through subtle layering, muted and earthy palettes refined until the texture itself begins to hold memory.

"A single painting can hold a hundred different stories," she says. "What one person reads as calm, another reads as longing." That openness is deliberate. Her work aims for a grounding, harmonious presence, a quiet animation of the space it enters, one that invites stillness and contemplative depth into everyday life instead of competing for attention within it.

She describes her approach as digging the same well, going deeper in one direction instead of moving restlessly between many. Each new series adds another layer to that same ...

2026 upcoming ARCHzona + ART Vilnius (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2025 ARCHzona + ART Vilnius (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2024 Kaunas International Art Festival (Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 Carousel De Louvre (Paris, France)
2022 Van Gogh Art Gallery (Madrid, Spain)
2022 Contemporary Art Fair (Paris, France)
2021 Art Space Milano Gallery (Milan, Italy)